oddity

n.

奇特，奇异；怪癖；怪人，怪事；

复数：oddities

1. I was puzzled by the oddity of her behaviour.
   她行为古怪我感到莫名其妙。
2. He suddenly realized the oddity of her remark and blushed.
   他突然明白了她言辞的古怪，脸唰的一下红了。
3. He's something of an oddity in the neighbourhood.
   左邻右舍都觉得他是个怪人。
4. In those days a working mother was regarded as something of an oddity.
   那时候职业妇女被认为是怪人。

Oddity and the ‘confusion effect’ in predation
The viroid: biological oddity or evolutionary fossil?
Identity: The basis for both matching and oddity learning in pigeons.
Size segregation and the effects of oddity on predation risk in minnow schools
Chromatin elimination--an oddity or a common mechanism in differentiation and development?
Activating the medial temporal lobe during oddity judgment for faces and scenes.
Metabolic memory in diabetes – from in vitro oddity to in vivo problem: Role of Apoptosis
Microorganisms and microalgae as sources of pigments for food use: a scientific oddity or an industrial reality?
Perirhinal cortex resolves feature ambiguity in configural object recognition and perceptual oddity tasks.
Perceptual functions of perirhinal cortex in rats: zero-delay object recognition and simultaneous oddity discriminations.